Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I have so much to be grateful for this year. I have an incredible husband who is such a great father. A sweet little boy who wants to be just like his daddy and loves to give hugs and kisses. Another baby boy on the way that we can't wait to meet. Wonderful family members who encourage and support me in all that I do. Awesome in-laws that I get to live so close to. Our jobs, home, and friends. And... this awesome blogging app I just downloaded that is going to make blogging so much nicer! 

We had a wonderful dinner at Josh's parents house and a few of his siblings and their families. It's fun to get together with them. Talon's favorite things were the rolls, olives, jigglers and cheesecake. He would not touch the stuffing. We'll have to work on that one.

Halloween Fun

 Halloween is much more fun when you have a 1 year old. Talon thought carving pumpkins was great! He couldn't get enough of playing with the slimey insides and putting "mooh" (moons) on the "muh-muh" (pumpkin).  I would draw shapes and ask him which one he wanted and he said moon every time.







Of course he had to hold the spoon the whole time.  He is such a good helper! Love that smile. :)










He is such a cute Yoda. We went trick or treating with some cousins and had a great time. Talon's favorite part of that was the candy of course and had to have at least one piece in each of his hands the whole time.

I wanted to get a really good picture of him when we got back so I chased him around with the camera for a while but he would NOT cooperate. (I know... mean mom trying to get lots of pictures). So here's a picture of a tired Yoda with his milk.

Pumpkin Project

For the past couple weeks, we have been making these cute pumpkins for our Young Women's activities (PS: I am in the YW's presidency and I love it! It's fun being so close in age to the Young Women even though the other leaders like to joke and say I look like I am one of them. One even tried to hand me a handout on dating today during the lesson before she realized I wasn't one of the girls.)

Anyways, I think it is safe to say that this is the first sewing project I've finished in the 2 and a half years we've been married. Decorations of any kind are definitely lacking in our home, so I'm excited to have these for the fall!

Fourth of July

We had a great 4th of July weekend! It started out with some camping in Idaho with Jake and Miya on Friday night. It was very peaceful to be out in nature and enjoy the nice river, fishing, and tin foil dinners. After dinner it started raining a bit so we decided to go inside one of the tents and play games. After a couple of games of Uno, the peacefulness of being in nature quickly came to an end. It started lightning and thundering and the rain was coming down harder. We could tell that if we stayed, we would be in for a long night. As soon as the rain started coming through the tent roof, we were out of there! We grabbed everything but the tents and coolers and made a run for it to our cars. The second we stepped outside the tent, we were all drenched from head to foot! It was like walking through a waterfall, or as Miya would say: "The river was raining on us."

This is the view from our car as we are headed out of the storm. It was hard to get a good picture of the rain so you'll just have to take my word for it that it was very WET!

And so were we....

So we drove back to Josh's parents house to get dry and to spend the night. The next morning, we headed back to our campsite and were happy to see our tents still standing. We went on a hike through the "badlands" AKA Jake and Josh's hunting grounds. It started with us walking through what I like to call the toilet. I'll leave that explanation up to your imagination. It smelled a lot better once we got to the trail. The hike would have been lovely if it hadn't been so wet from the night before. The mosquitoes were all over the place! It would have been funny to watch us walking because we were constantly hitting ourselves and each other and waving our arms to keep the bugs off. It is safe to say that we didn't make it very far on the trail.

After our hike, we went back to Josh's parents house and hung out there for the rest of the day. We spent the evening at his sister's house with a nice 4th of July barbecue, bonding time as we played games, and fireworks as soon as it was dark enough.

It's been a long time since I've been exhausted at the end of the day from having so much fun. It was great!